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[ENG SUB/CC] Season of Gfriend Asia Tour 280218 - Taipei - Self Introduction - Duration: 4:36.
Sowon: Hello everyone, we are Gfriend!
Sowon: Lets introduce ourselves one by one
Yerin: Hello everyone, I am Yerin
Yuju: Hello everyone, I am Yuju
Sowon: Hello everyone, I am Sowon
Sinb: Hello everyone, I am Sinb
Eunha: Hello everyone, I am Eunha
Umji: Hello everyone, I am Umji
Sowon: So everyone this is Gfriend in Taipei. Gfriend's first Asia Tour officially starts!
Sowon: Today's stage is Gfriend's first for our Asia Tour
Sowon: We're a bit nervous. Also, after thinking that we can see you guys, we are very excited
Sowon: How about the other members?
Yuju: When we were performing the first song Fingertip and also Navillera
we can hear Buddies' voices we are *inaudible*
Yuju: since everyone is supporting us like this, I don't need to be nervous anymore
Yuju: With happy emotions, please enjoy our stage!
Umji: To be honest, before I went on stage I was also very very nervous
But after hearing our Buddies' screams, it gave me a lot of strength
Today, I hope everyone will be very very happy, finishing the best stage
Also, I heard that it is raining outside
It must be difficult for people to come. So thank you everyone for coming
Sinb: Buddy, Hello!
We have prepared for the stage for you guys, I feel really fortunate
Do you guys feel fortunate too?
Hope everyone can be with us until the last stage with this forunate feeling.
Yerin: Also our buddy, I really really miss you guys!
We used the mentality of giving a gift to Buddies when preparing for this. Please look forward to it
So is everyone ready to enjoy this with us?
Is everyone really ready?
Eunha: It seems like our Buddies has been ready a long tim ago
With Buddies supporting us like this, it seems like I have tears in my eyes
Let's quickly start our next stage
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California to allow testing of self driving cars without a driver present - Duration: 2:10.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles established new rules announced Monday that
will allow tech companies and others working on driverless vehicle systems to begin trialling
their cars without a safety driver at the wheel.
The new rules go into effect starting April 2.
Until now, the DMV has allowed companies approved for autonomous vehicle testing to run their
cars on the roads, with autonomous driving systems engaged, provided that there's a
trained safety driver behind the wheel ready and able to take over manual control.
Now, the regulators are updating their rules to allow for a fully driverless test, which
is a key step along the route towards actually deploying self-driving vehicles in a commercial
capacity.
This doesn't mean test vehicles will be out there on the roads without any kind of
human intervention backup – the DMV will require that those testing autonomous cars
without a driver present have a dedicated communications channel that ties the car to
a remote operator, who can take over if needed.
The cars will also need to be hardened against cyber attacks and be able to provide their
owner and operator info to any other parties in the event of an accident.
Any companies wishing to test this way will need to secure a permit to do so from the
DMV, just as with driver-present testing, and the new rules only apply to consumer passenger
vehicles (not semi trucks, for instance).
Alphabet-owned Waymo and GM's Cruise will likely welcome this news, since the former
is already testing totally driver-free versions of its Chrysler Pacifica test car in Arizona,
and Cruise recently showed off its fully driverless autonomous vehicle, a modified version of
the Bolt EV with no steering wheel and no pedals for brake and acceleration.
GM hopes to field those cars by 2019, and this will help them do that in San Francisco,
the site of its current largest test pilot.
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"From a Seedling of Cast-Off Self" — Original Short Story — H.P. Lovecraft Series - Duration: 33:48.
August 9th, 1879 My Dear Minerval Icarus,
I can scarcely permit myself to pick up this pen.
The things which I must relate hereafter will sound such nonsense, fit more for the gibbering
of a masonic mystic than for the ink of your own Illuminated.
But am I so incredulous that I must take on the burden of a madman?
Shall I begin after but one doubtful night to question my own faculties?
I think I will not.
There is scrutiny that must be paid here, but I have none for that which masquerades
as the supernatural.
I shall therefore grant what my eyes have seen and what my ears have heard, and turn
all question instead upon the foundation of these happenings.
I have spoken to you of Adam Weishaupt, have I not?
If you have bothered to read the texts I have sent you, you will understand his role as
the father of our great work.
It was he who first discerned the wisdom of self-perfection for the perfection of all
man, and he who first established so many of our guiding philosophies in those early
infant years of our order.
And in secret, it was he and his fellows who contrived the erosion of that diseased hegemony
of religious and political institution which so threatens the free-thinking mind.
My esteem for the man is great, make you no mistake.
Have I not been here for the greater part of these two years, my young prot�g�,
teaching you in the revival of the organization he himself founded?
But all great feats granted, he was only as you and I: a man.
This premise, for one cruel evening, was sorely tested.
A lesser mind-or perhaps more rightly, one more prone to fits of dubious faith or fancy-would
surely call what I experienced a "visitation".
I will not.
I will only relate the events in their order.
As I was retiring to bed this past evening, a man appeared to me in the door of my chamber.
He came swaddled in the black of a funeral robe, wearing on his face the gray death mask
of Adam Weishaupt.
My first impulse, of course, was to react as prey trapped before a predator.
You will imagine I was quite caught off my guard.
But I will do away with the garrulous descriptions of the sweat on my brow and the beating of
my heart, for they soon enough vanished.
It was discourse alone that he sought.
Such a strange fellow with such strange intonation and so strange ideas, what was I to do but
entertain?
Our conversation lasted far into the small hours of the morning.
When at length he departed, although I am loathe to admit, I found myself entirely perplexed.
My doctorate and all my many years at T�rbingen were as nothing to him.
He spoke of modern chemistry and psychology the way an artist speaks of the hues of a
painting, as if all reality were mutable and subjective.
He spoke too of philosophy, and of the perfectibility of man.
He spoke, and fairly ensorcelled although understanding precious little, I did listen.
I am left here now with the scattering of notes he bade me take and the ghosts of his
abstractions reverberating throughout my mind.
I will not play at the fantasy that this could indeed be a final message from Weishaupt himself,
fifty years beyond the pall of death.
I know only that my curiosity is piqued, and the thin strata of my intellectual pride thoroughly
eroded.
For all my lacking comprehension, I sense some truth in these notes.
I wish to know better what it is he meant to convey by visiting me.
If you'll have it, I will share my progress with you.
I know the Areopagus would make such noise of this, but I have trust in the confidence
of master and pupil.
Will you join me on this frivolous foray, Icarus?
Write me with all haste!
-Daedelus
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The mountains began to slow, and then to crawl.
The life at last went out of them and they were again an oil painting mounted in the
window of a sleeper car.
Nathaniel's head jerked with the halting momentum of the train.
Like waking, he felt himself return to his own skin.
He clenched and unclenched his tingling hands.
He couldn't tell whether his mouth was numb or dry, but was either way unhappy to be aware
of the sensation.
The hours between Canterbury and Eisenach had passed in a blur of internal exploration.
Instead of drowning under the tide of anxious dread, he'd devoted his attention to the new
breadth of his mind.
He felt it, reaching hungrily to correlate all it now knew with all that was.
Here was the Rennsteig boundary path, nestled into the Thuringian Forest.
Here was the winding shape of the Werra, cutting a silver line through the trees.
Here were a thousand words of a language he'd learned over the course of a single weekend
in preparation for the trip, spilling out under his breath.
A cursory riffle through a stack of textbooks had been enough to prime him, and the rest
had come as naturally as resurfacing memories.
It was good to have his thoughts away from the sleeplessness, and the waning appetite,
and the slow loss of sensation throughout his body.
Good to think of all the chemical had done for him so far.
He touched the final preparation through the fabric of his breast pocket.
Had it been like the others, he'd have downed it in an instant, trusting the effect to resolve
his developing condition.
All would have been well.
He ran his fingers over the shape of the needle's rubber covering.
Why a syringe, now?
Why all these unforetold symptoms?
And why, why was there no response?
He swallowed back the questions, grimaced, and began to gather his things.
As he made his way to the platform, struggling with valise and trunk against the new weakness
in his limbs, he felt a tapping at his elbow.
He looked, and saw the familiar, rotund face of Minerval Pliny.
The man was wearing an olive ditto suit and bowler.
He smiled with theatric politeness from behind his walrus 'stache.
"Begging your pardon, sir," he began in broken English.
When he saw that Nathaniel's eyes were on him, he aimed a thick finger at Nathaniel's
chest.
"If I might, I am noticing your lovely brooch and am wondering if you might tell me, what
is the species of this bird?"
Nathaniel followed the finger with his eyes to the silver pin in his lapel.
It was made to look like an old Greek Dekadrachm coin, tiny owl staring out with its wide eyes
from the center.
He'd forgotten he'd been wearing the thing.
He huffed through his nose tolerantly and gave Pliny a smile that he hoped wasn't condescending.
"It is no trouble, good fellow," he said in perfect, if not perfectly fluid, German.
"That would be the Athene Noctua, a rather small species from out of certain parts of
Asia and Continental Europe.
We hope soon to see it in Britain as well."
For a moment the pretense of the stilted dialogue fell away.
Pliny stared at him, eyebrows knit together in confusion.
The last time they'd seen each other was a little more than a year ago at the Revival
Conference in Bavaria.
He'd been Nathaniel's host then, and in a limited capacity, his translator.
Now the same dim boy stood before him, speaking the language with grammar that was likely
better than his own.
Nathaniel suppressed a grin.
The shorter man caught himself chewing the corner of his own mustache, deep in thought.
He spat it out and said in German, "Wonderful!
I take it you are also a lover of birds?
Shall I help you with your things and we talk about it at length?"
Gratefully, Nathaniel passed the trunk handle to him.
Although the station was near empty, they continued their performance all the way to
the coach, speaking of ornithology and birdwatching and other small things neither of them shared
any interest in.
Were it anyone else, Nathaniel would have tried to do away with the fa�ade.
He was tired, and didn't want to think of scripts and protocols.
But he knew that Pliny was a good Minerval, and would never suffer such sloppiness.
So he humored his friend, and pretended not to know him until the coach doors were closed
and the horses were clip-clopping down the road.
"Thank you, Berend," he said at last, slouching into the old upholstery.
"It was a taxing journey."
Berend didn't respond at first.
He was busy peeking out through the blinds, as if all the world were suspicious of them.
When he seemed satisfied that they were well and truly alone, he reclined into the opposite
seat and looked at Nathaniel.
He did not smile in his usual way, but with something timid, equal parts caution and curiosity.
His eyes seemed to glitter with questions in the dark.
"You," he said slowly, "have changed.
I see it well enough in your countenance, to speak nothing of your language.
It would not be proper of me to ask, but I will not lie and tell you that I am not positively
itching to."
Berend cast a glance at the front wall of the coach, as if the driver would either hear
or care about anything he had to say.
He leaned forward confidentially, dropping his voice to a whisper.
"What is all this business of sudden change?
What is so urgent that you must break tradition and go hunting for your mentor when you are
well to know nothing of him, hm?"
Nathaniel met his gaze.
He was a good man to prepare so much so quickly, and a good friend to do it with so little
explanation.
In an instant Nathaniel collected in his mind the events of the last month-the strange letters,
the rush of new fascination, the parade of chemicals, the growing spaciousness of his
mind-and knew that as much as he might wish to, he could say nothing.
The great irony in the secret Illuminati Rinascita was that word travelled.
And for all his stringency in the following of protocols, Berend was no closed book.
If Nathaniel spoke now, every chapter from Bavaria to London would be crying alchemy
and mystification within a fortnight.
He would be the next Adolph Freiherr Knigge.
"I won't deprive you your answers, but for now I beg patience.
My Daedelus is possessed of a jealous brilliance.
I cannot in good conscience unveil what he has confided in me, but I do believe him to
be on the brink of something with the potential to alter the way we perceive the perfectibility
of man.
Am I not proof of this?"
The regard of Berend's eyes changed as he looked at Nathaniel then, although whether
they changed to skepticism or to grim seriousness he could not tell.
He went on.
"Now, at the xenith of his study, he falls silent?
I would be a poor Minerval not to distress."
"Ah," said Berend, twisting his mustache between sausage-shaped fingers, "yes, I agree it is
a severe thing for one of our Illuminated to vanish from his Minerval.
But, Nathaniel, it would have been prudent-nay, proper of you!-to leave the matter in the
hands of your peers!
Why not simply let us find him on our own and write to you of his condition?
Anonymity of master to prot�g� is paramount to illumination!
This doctrine should not be a revelation to you."
Nathaniel pinched the bridge of his nose between a forefinger and thumb.
His temples were beginning to throb, vision to swim as with a migraine.
The pins and needles had moved from his fingertips to his palms, leaving them cold and sensationless.
He itched for the syringe in his breast pocket, but instead closed his eyes, and thought of
how soon he would once again be under the guidance of his mentor.
"Have faith," he said, with a tired sigh.
"As I said, there will be answers, but no sooner than I am able to speak with Daedelus
myself."
Berend frowned and crossed his arms.
He nodded.
"Fine enough.
I will trust your judgement.
We will arrive in little more than an hour to Weimar to speak with an associate who has,
so they say, dealt with your Daedelus no more than a week ago."
His tone softened, and he gave Nathaniel a pat on the knee.
"For now, it seems to me that you must rest.
You have the look a drowned dog."
Sleep.
He smirked at the naivety of the suggestion, but closed his eyes anyway, and at least tried
to pretend such a thing was possible.
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September 2nd, 1879 Icarus,
I hope you will forgive me some exuberance in the writing of this letter.
There are but a precious handful of great epiphanies a man comes to in his life.
I believe now, in the wake of my strange visitor some weeks prior, I have experienced one such
revelation.
How I will begin to explain this to you, I do not yet know.
But my pen has already committed ink to paper, and there is little time for articulation.
I suppose I shall put what words occur to me in sequence, and hope that they will translate
to something meaningful when I am done.
It has always been our admission within the Order that a man is a thing of limited ken.
You may know the words of Weishaupt: "In the stage of manhood alone does the human race
first appear in his dignity; only there are his principles fixed, his connections appropriate,
he sees the full circumference of his sphere; there alone-after we have learned through
many detours, through long, repeated, sad experiences, what a calamity it is to arrogate
the rights of others, to raise oneself over others through mere external advantages, to
use his size to the detriment of others-there one recognizes, believes, feels what an honor,
what a joy it is to be a human being."
These were his words, and this much we all grant: a man's goodness exists only in proportion
to his role on the stage of mankind.
But how can we ever fulfill our role if we know not the performance?
Even within the order, it is politics and alignments and bickering philosophy.
We are ever divided by our lack of vision, and thus must perfectibility evade our grasp.
This sounds like so much poetry and speculation, but it was the intention of the man in the
mask to show me otherwise.
I see that now.
I could not fathom the proposition at the time, so lost was I beneath the impenetrable
speak of substances and the stricture of application.
Now, after more than a week of toil, I have lain out the breadth of it before me in paper
and ink, and I see clearly what he meant to say.
I expect it would be impossible to describe to someone of your learning the precise mechanism
behind the process, but in the plainest possible terms you might call it the replication of
a thought.
Upon consumption of the chemical, the body is seized first by the physiological product
of the thought, and the mind extrapolates immediately backward to discover its psychological
source.
It has so far been impossible for me to make any meaningful correlations between the specifics
of my new ease of learning and the exact preparation these instructions have allowed me to create.
The end result is something like a general broadening of the individual's aptitudes through
a clandestine series of grafts patterned after the experiences of an unknown donor.
Oh, Icarus, I am sorry.
Any attempt to render this madness comprehensible is doomed from the start.
Suffice it to say, I feel we have all this time been standing at the foot of the gate,
and only now have we been given a key.
I am sorely tempted to grant that the man was Weishaupt himself, not returned from death,
but from an expedition to that unknown place beyond the wall of our meager ken.
Suppose we follow, and find what we will?
Perhaps this is indeed the final step before the threshold of perfect unity we have for
so long sought to procure for our kind.
I do not yet know.
I am only so much better for having tried.
Already I feel my own mind flourishing like a tree beneath the hands of a good husbandman.
I would be glad to share it with you.
Expect a preparation of your own in the post.
I will await your response.
Yours with all eagerness,
-Daedelus
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The darkness moved behind Nathaniel's eyelids.
It was alive with silhouetted lines that seemed to drift to and fro, shadows cast over shadows.
They'd first appeared weeks ago, as benign then as the tiny white spots and lines one
sees when they peer up at a clear blue sky.
He'd taken them as an artifact of his burgeoning perspective, and they hadn't troubled him.
But the days had passed, and night after restless night he'd watched as the dark static coalesced
into something too distinct not to notice every time he closed his eyes.
Rest became the sole product of sheer exhaustion, and when he dreamt, the lines were umbral
pathways leading to countless open doors.
Beyond each of them, the same strange vista he could never quite recall in waking.
However tired he felt, he knew sleep wouldn't come.
He sat awake for the better part of an hour with his lids shut, watching the bizarre spectacle
play out behind them.
As he stared, he began to notice something in the obscurity.
There was an odd sense of depth to it all.
Some of the dark tendrils were nearer and larger than others, some so far distant that
they blended into the red-black canvas of his flesh.
One of them looked almost like one of the pathways from his dreams, stretching out from
beneath him.
It curved up and away from the bottom of his field of view, shrinking into the distance
to join the innumerable, shifting tapestry beyond.
He felt himself lean forward to follow, but then there was something hard on his shoulder,
and he jolted to a halt.
"Good lord, man!"
One of Berend's big hands closed around his shoulder and hefted him backward against the
seat.
"Are you trying to concuss yourself, taking a dive into the bench like that?"
Nathaniel barely heard him.
Barely saw him.
When he opened his eyes, there, somehow visible beneath all the layers of substance that made
up reality, was the faintest impression of a shadow.
It was a single, great, silhouetted line, drawn between him and something far away.
He could still see it, even with his eyes open.
The look on his face must have been madness, because Berend jerked his hand away from Nathaniel's
shoulder as if it were a hot burner, and fell silent for several long seconds.
"Nathaniel," he said at length, voice soft with concern.
He tried for a moment to see what had Nathaniel so transfixed.
Seeming to see nothing, he grunted, removed his bowler, and began nervously to slick back
his island of thinning hair.
"You... do not look well, my friend.
In fact, I might say you look the poorest I've seen a man outside of hospital.
It may be wise to forego the meeting this evening and instead get you in front of a
physician, hm?"
Nathaniel continued to look through him at the new shadow beneath reality.
His headache seemed to bleed into it, lancing sharply through his neck and temples, emanating
outward through his throbbing eyes in a way he couldn't fathom.
The pain streamed out along the dark path like an electric current through a lightning
rod.
He felt it outside of himself, radiating to new and different places miles away.
A new revelation came to him, then.
He knew it as well as he knew the warmth of his own breath, the location of his fingertips.
The path lead to Daedelus.
He blinked, as if that might make the shadow disappear for long enough to find some clarity
of thought.
The vision only intensified.
Closing his eyes was like draping a navigational map over a landscape.
With each passing moment he felt more and more of this dark network, laced into the
fabric of all that was.
He inhaled slowly, trying to fight back the anxious heat rising into his cheeks.
It was difficult to focus on anything with this new visual obstruction beneath it all,
but he looked at Berend.
"He is in Gotha."
Berend's face scrunched up, skeptical.
He was quiet for a moment.
"Do you mean Daedelus?"
Nathaniel nodded.
"How can you know something like that?
You were begging for help to track the man down not one week ago!"
Nathaniel looked into Berend's dark eyes with the last shreds of his concentration.
He thought his fist might be clutching the fabric of Berend's sleeve, but he wasn't sure.
Most of the feeling had gone out of his extremities over the course of the last hour.
"Please, trust me.
You will have answers, but for now, trust me.
Trust me."
Berend stared back at him, fierce for a moment.
And then his resolve looked to break, and his expression deflated into one of pity.
He laced his fingers together and placed them over his mouth, deep in thought.
"That is more than six hours ride.
I am in earnest when I say that I do not know how you will endure the journey.
But if you must go now, I will take you."
Nathaniel opened his mouth to speak, but Berend held up a finger.
"My condition is that we see to your condition no later than you see in the flesh your Daedelus.
You may give your greeting, but then I take you to the nearest hospital."
Nathaniel only nodded vacantly, and watched Berend climb out of the carriage to speak
with the driver.
There was the sound of muffled bickering, but it was so far blurred into the inconsequential
stimulus of his senses that he hardly noticed.
Trembling and numb, his fingers fumbled with his breast pocket to withdraw the preparation.
Looking at it now, the substance in the chamber had a strange quality he had never before
noticed.
It was like a shadow, no depth or dimension, falling against the chamber only opposite
the light.
Still, it rippled and sloshed about when he moved it like any ordinary liquid.
He looked at the darkening shadow path, extending away from him into the distance.
There were the ghostly impressions of others now as well, crisscrossing madly in every
direction.
If he closed his eyelids, he knew he would see them all with perfect clarity.
Six hours.
Only six hours until Daedelus could fix him, or at least put right his broken mind.
He pressed the tip of the needle to the inside of his elbow.
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September 29th, 1879 It was foolishness to spend precious time
writing out the date.
It is foolishness for me to be writing anything other than the principle matter of this letter.
Pardon me.
It is a great effort to focus my hand, much less my mind.
The whole of reality has become to me a stimulus which I cannot resist.
However, for your sake, I must for a moment attempt to reduce the aperture of my vision.
I will try.
I apologize in advance if pieces of this letter become inscrutable.
Icarus, by the time this finds you I will have summited the high peak of our expedition.
Already I feel the winds of rapid ascent lapping at my limbs and my face.
You must feel the beginnings of it as well.
I cannot offer you courage, only promise that what you endure-what I endure-must surely
be worthy.
I have seen now the truth of man.
We are but fragments of one grand intelligence, fractured and locked away in the fragile prison
cells of ordered nature.
The great perfection of united purpose we have for so long sought after is only the
dream of a mind which longs to be whole.
Humanity is the barrier to its own perfection, and so we make our exodus.
I am sorry.
It is so much to hold this pen between fingers that seem no longer to be there at all; to
reduce myself to something which can see the necessity of such things as a written letter.
I can abide no longer.
I must finish my ascent.
I leave you here with not only an open gate, but a path to follow.
Be brave, Icarus.
Rejoice.
-Daedelus
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Nathaniel knew the place before they arrived.
It surfaced like a forgotten memory from the back of his mind.
There, he recalled the procession of white ornaments along the roof's frontispiece, the
Corinthian half-columns built into the siding, the faux-marble bas reliefs capping each door.
The years had worn them all from their rococo splendor to the black-streaked relics of a
time since passed.
The last home of Adam Weishaupt.
His shadow-path crawled irreverently beyond the overgrown dooryard and upward through
the innards of the house.
Amid the churnings of the million other dark channels that had since come to overcrowd
his vision, there was no seeing where it lead.
He didn't care.
The pain in his head was blossoming into a confluence of all the world's anguish, centered
somewhere behind his eyes.
Relief was only several dozen footsteps away.
He tried to stand and throw open the door, but couldn't quite tell what he was doing
with his numb limbs and collided fruitlessly against the inside wall of the coach.
His body was rapidly turning into a useless anchor of flesh and bone.
Berend heard the ruckus and startled awake.
"The devil?"
He shouted, looking bleary-eyed up at Nathaniel.
Upon meeting Nathaniel's gaze, his tired indignation melted instantly into an expression of gaping
horror.
His eyes flicked about, as if unsure which precise part of Nathaniel's head to stare
at.
Nathaniel only paid him a glance, and then continued to scrabble in weak desperation
against the door.
When he finally found purchase and it came open, his momentum sent him stumbling ungracefully
onto his hands and knees on the gravel outside.
He thought one of his legs and several of his fingers might have twisted strangely beneath
him as he rose to his feet, but there was no sensation in them and no time to worry.
The door was open, waiting for him at the end of the walk.
He hobbled toward it as if were the only thing his body had ever been meant for.
"But... your head," he heard Berend stammering somewhere behind him, "Nathaniel, wait!
Your head!
You need a surgeon, right this moment!
You... you need a priest!"
He continued to shout, but never left the carriage.
Whatever he was trying to say, it was not enough to compel him to follow.
As Nathaniel crossed the threshold, he noticed that the dark path curled through the architecture
in such a way that he couldn't follow.
He cast his eyes about the place.
Vaguely, above the field of twisting darkness, he began to recognize his surroundings.
Here was the parlor, and the familiar hydrangea-embroidered couch he'd dozed on during so many long nights
riddling out the particularities of his suspicions.
Here was the library, and the piles of strange texts he'd hoped would shed some light on
his visitor's cryptic guidance.
Here was the cellar, where under the absent instruction of a staring clay mask he'd first
learned to distill a thought into something one could hold in a vial.
He stood at the top of the stairwell, leaning heavily against the doorframe.
He couldn't tell whether the memories belonged to him or to someone else.
All was Numbness and pain.
He was become an amalgamate of the two, wrought over with a fever of foreign visions and all
the experiences of a consciousness greater than his own.
The physical, the present, hardly seemed to exist at all anymore.
If he focused very hard, he thought he could see something out of place in the dim light
of the stairwell.
It looked like a system of tender white roots spread out over the walls and the ceiling
and the steps.
They crept slowly across the bricks, the wood, now and then finding one another and melding
with mercurial smoothness before diverging again into a dozen new lines.
As he watched this through his wavering vision, a far-distant part of his mind tried feebly
to tell him something that he could only just hear.
It was as if some final foundering fragment of humanity was rasping out a cry within him.
All the things that did not want to be forgotten gathered in the shade of his fear, begging
him not to go.
A thousand days of waking and sleeping and living for the simple curiosity of the next
day, a hundred thousand words of ambition uttered in hushed tones to his father and
written into the lines of letters to his mentor, countless words and wants left unsaid and
unformed.
Everything that he was and had ever wanted to be rebelled against the blasphemy in the
stairwell.
From this primitive, dwindling bastion of rational thought, there came a pang of truth.
He knew from the pain alone that there would be no return from this expedition.
It was too late for Berend's physician to do whatever he thought he might be able to.
Still, it wasn't too late to turn around all the same.
Better, perhaps, to end the journey knowingly than to forever lose his way home.
He stood silently, feeling the warmth of this last fire.
At last, it winked out, and although he did not feel it, he knew it rolled in a single
cool droplet down his cheek and off his jaw.
He lowered onto his hands and knees, and began to descend.
At the base of the steps, the network of roots congealed into a single shape.
He was entering into a cavern of flesh now, blanketed in gray and glistening tissue.
Just as he'd known the way to the old Weishaupt home, known the shape and the history of the
rooms within, known that he must journey into the cellar, he knew now, even before he saw
the body, that this was Daedelus.
And there, beyond it all, the shadow trail came curling incorporeally through the building,
terminating at last behind the cellar's far wall.
At its end, his dear mentor.
The husk of the man he'd known lay on the floor, as empty and gray as the sloughed exoskeleton
of an insect.
Now Daedelus was something else, blossoming out of his own cleft skull like a giant, gray
flower.
His roots branched from a network of darkness, and from a seedling of cast-off humanity.
His dendritic petals beckoned motionlessly to Nathaniel, and their attention was clarity,
and liberty, and freedom from pain.
His hands and knees could hold his weight no longer.
He rolled onto his back to stare up at his mentor, feeling the ineffable agony climb
to its burning climax behind his eyes.
All the world was slipping away.
He felt himself floating in the vastness of the disordered cosmos, surrounded by the pulsing
axons of the mind Daedelus had become; that he was becoming.
One final vision for Nathaniel, before he was forever lost to the fullness of all time
and knowledge.
He saw it first with his own eyes: a figure, emerging from some place in the cellar, clad
in blackness.
It stared down at him through the death mask of Adam Weishaupt.
"Humanity is the barrier to its own perfection," it said, deep voice resonating impossibly
through ears that no longer worked, "and so you make your exodus."
And then his eyes began to fail, and the figure unfurled into something incomprehensibly vast,
mottled all over with gray pock marks.
It hovered like a gardener among vines, stroking with its many arms the infinitely interwoven
branches of all sentience.
The grey marks were the innumerable remnants of stolen visages, death masks all staring
expressionlessly outward forever.
He knew all of them, but there were only three he truly saw.
There was Weishaupt, and there was one he knew to be Daedelus, and there was one that
had at one point, long ago, belonged to a man named Nathaniel.
And then even the names themselves were swept away on the surging tide of awareness, and
the masks no longer belonged to anyone at all.
Afterword Thus concludes what may have been the single
most taxing story we've created for this show.
If not for our humans, then at least for me personally.
Our goal this time was to do as Lovecraft did when he referenced his own creations,
and use them as the props in a sort of "psychological performance".
I was the unfortunate lab rat for this piece, and there is a lot of me in there.
My fears, my... reservations about what I am, and what I could be.
I'll leave it at that and let you all connect the dots in the comments.
This can be pretty hard stuff for me to talk about at length.
While you're at it, feel free to hazard a guess at which particular symbols and figures
we invoked from the mythos.
You might be surprised.
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Morning Conversations with Jim Self and Roxane Burnett - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Soul - Duration: 13:44.
You didn't-- you set it up the opposite of what I just did. No, I said is that the
way you want it? Yeah. I didn't notice that it was-- Do you want to change it?
No it's fine. You positioned it just fine.
Here's a theoretical question. So let's suppose that like Jack Moe? Ma. Ma...
...machines are in place and are doing all the jobs. most the jobs, work. And human's
job is to enjoy yourself. To enjoy yourself. So you have all the money you
need, all your needs are taken care of, now what? What would you do and
that's kind of how we left everybody last week: think about if all this was
taken care of what would you do, how would you fill your time? Yeah so how did
you do with that question? Now the interesting thing is I'm gonna
presuppose that people our age cannot answer that question.
Oh we'll say, oh no, no. I can, I can. I would travel. I would buy a new car.
Okay so you've done all your traveling.
You've already bought your fourth car. You have the ideal house in fact you've
torn it down and you've rebuilt it and now it's the ideal house and the
question is: okay I have everything, I am not wanting for
anything, how will I live my life in this minute? And my assumption is going to be
I don't know how to answer that question. So why do you guess that people
over 50 would say that? Because I'm dealing with that. Aha. See so when I sit
and I say, am I happy? Am I doing what I want to do and if I could step away from
everything, step away from Mastering Alchemy, step away from-- we don't have a
lot of debt so it's not a challenge in my space, what would I do? Is even like
sitting on the beach which we did now for a number of weeks and
nothing happened. There's nothing to do. Nothing to do there except enjoy the
beach and enjoy the walks and and watch all the really interesting different
animals that we've never seen before and then come back and sit down and say now
what? This minute, now what? There really- in my space I mean, I can, I can make this
work but the question of "now what?" was daunting. And so most people I'm going to
make an assumption don't even push themselves to that place to really sit
in a disconnected reality and say now what do I do? And I and I watch people at
our age running into a significant challenge in terms of we have that
available it's called retirement. Well but no I
don't have enough money I don't, I don't, I don't. But let's just say the don'ts
aren't the problem. What are you going to do with yourself? Now let's back that
down into the conversation we're having about technology and directions and new
human species and these kind of things. The artificial intelligence is going
to take away hundreds of millions of jobs. And it's interesting there is a
study that was just done where they went in and asked workers: do you think
robotics and artificial intelligence is gonna threaten your job? 94% said "no." This
was in a factory this was in a factory. The jobs that are going to disappear
first are factory jobs, mining jobs, fast food jobs, accounting jobs,
service-oriented jobs that have a rote structure to them. You're talking five to
seven years a great portion of those jobs are gonna disappear. And these people
were were naive. Or they were ordinary, let's go to, let's be really kind to them.
They're just, they're naive people, average people. The one woman said: I fold
boxes. My part of this process in the factory is I fold boxes. And
there's no machine that can be made that can fold a box better than I can. Because
she had tissue paper that she was able to very cleanly put in-- no machine can do
that. There are machines that do that right now. You look at Amazon warehouse
system. Amazon, all the things they deliver to a great extent when their
biggest warehouse has six people doing all that. Wow. I mean you're talking about
a million square feet of products that get sent out and delivered to you within
two days. Six people running that business. So this transformation that
we're about to see is is really, really enormous. Now let's back down from the
I'm living my life, taking music lessons, enjoying myself, to a great extent my
supposition is you and me are not going to have that experience. We're going to
we're going to move right through it to the end of our lives. We'll have the
advantages of all the new new technology and we will have some of the challenges
of it also but it's really the Millennials. Yeah. They're the ones and
they're already being, as we said last week, being structured. They want to just
travel they want to have a good time they want to enjoy life. So is it already
hardwired into the young people to basically step into a society that
doesn't require them to sweat and toil and work as we've understood work? And
they don't like worrying. Yeah. And so you've got that whole side of it where
everybody looks at the Millennials and go, what's wrong with them? Well maybe what's
right with them? Right. Maybe they're in a in a intuitive way preparing for this
next step so they can easily just move, flow right into it. Ya know all along our
position in Mastering Alchemy is two people our age. You know kind of 45, 50 and older.
You hold the dream you hold the concept of this reality coming into place,
massive opportunity, responsibility. And so but there's going to be
transformation so the question is: if you had that can you do it? Now where people
I watched when I asked this question ago is, but what if I lose my job? And chances are
you're gonna lose your job if you're in any of these you know vast categories. You're
going to get displaced. The next iteration is where the real challenge is
going to be is this interface between government and business. See government
doesn't want attacks and they've done outrageous things right now they just
increased the amount of spending to fix everything and decreased the amount of
income in the United States to challenge people who-- they're got no money. Is
really what it's coming down to is we're gonna face some very challenging times
in the next couple of years. But that space is something where the government
job corporation interface-- corporations have got to get out of stock holder
mindset and get into participation in Community Development. Yeah. And many of
them are already doing that in wonderful ways. I mean you just watched JP Morgan
and Amazon I think and two others basically said we're gonna form a
non-profit healthcare system. So you're watching the society being ripped apart
and the funding mechanisms to support people's well-being is being ripped out
from under them. I see something that has to happen when the robots start
taking over jobs, it sounds like a sci-fi movie, something that has to happen is
there has to be a universal basic income. Somehow people have to be taken care of.
Somehow people have to get an amount of money every month, every adult, to support
themselves. Yeah now this isn't welfare. That concept is not welfare. And but what
I can't, the doubt in me is that, yeah corporations, government, they're not
going to give people something for not working. There-- the level of greed... Well I
I that's the challenge and I think you're going to see some really smart
people who are running a lot of these businesses, not from greed but from
profit orientation, they're beginning to really realize you can't go to, you can't
take tens of thousands of warehouse jobs away and give it to six people and
robots. Though what is about that displacement and so the displacement
issue is going to be what you're going to be really observing over the next
five, six years. You're going to see really tremendous clash on one hand
between governments and old ideologies that say let's go back to the old way,
and the reality of the artificial intelligence paced consciousness that's
now coming into play. So that's where the clash is going to be and in the interim
class there's going to be a lot of people that are going to be displaced. So
how do you take care of those and you can't do it the way it's currently being
done. It's like opioids, you know. This is a massive crisis but it's not a massive
crisis of the Blacks or the Mexican-Americans or the low income. It's
the American population. And all of a sudden it hits every
congressional district. It hits every-- and something has to be done, you can't just
sweep it under. So this would be the same sort of-- same kind of thing. You're going
to get these huge unemployment spikes if it's not addressed and then you're going
to have social, social unrest in a lot of ways. And the government corporate place
is the interface and you're actually seeing-- there are smart people in
government, there really are. I saw one once. No there are really smart Congress
people in it but the system is so broken that a smart person can't be heard
because he has to go through, she has to go through the hierarchy and that's
going to break. You have people like Jack Ma and Jeff Bezos and and Bill Gates and
and many many people that are basically saying: I have the money and I'm going to
take responsibility for redirecting this. So that's all good but between the me
and you here listening, this the real message here is: pay attention.
The opportunity in 10, 15, 20 years from now, and maybe even a little bit longer,
of machines are about work and people are about living, that's going to
come about unless the direction of AI splits off into the negative side where
domination, greed is the consciousness that drives the thinking iteration of
the machines. Right. And that has happened in the fall of consciousness. There are
still places in the fall of consciousness where there is no soul.
There is machine technology that drives from pure greed, greed pure domination,
pure enslavement, that exists not in your reality, you'll never see it. But that's
where that line of structure went off. We're at a place where there's a choice
to be made and to a great extent I think the reason we're having this
conversation is even though I'm saying you and I are not going to have that
moment of: "isn't this great I just had a wonderful music lesson and I'm happy."
Hopefully you'll hit that but our task is to make sure that this direction
doesn't happen. Yeah. It's holding the consciousness, it's believing rather than
going into the fear and the worry. It's really believing that even with your
last breath if you hold that consciousness you did not fail. It's that
important to be able to be there. Yeah. So this is a good set of discussions.
There's a lot more to this maybe we'll explore it more. I'm interested in what
you think-- what would you do if all your needs were taken care of and you could
do anything you wanted? Yeah. And what would you, what, how are you holding the
dream even though there's shrouded in worry and concerns in
looking at the external world seeing things that really don't make a lot of
sense and are very much going in the opposite direction that your belief in
well-being is. Can you know well-being will happen by just holding it, even with
your last breath? And that's really kind of what is going to be, I think, the
topics of the next 10 to 15 years. So we'll talk about this I think probably
many more times.
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Waymo 360° Experience: A Fully Self-Driving Journey - Duration: 3:37.
Back in 2009, in our early days at Google, we started working on self-driving cars.
Today, we're called Waymo and our fully self-driving cars are on the road.
They use a range of technology we've built from the ground up
to understand the world around them and get you where you need to go.
You're about to see how it all works, and what it feels like to ride in our car.
As it drives, Waymo uses LiDAR which sends out millions of laser beams per second
to build up a detailed picture of the world all 360 degrees around it.
It also uses radar to detect how far away objects are and their speed.
And high-resolution cameras detect visual information like whether a traffic signal is red or green.
It then combines all that data to understand the world around it.
For example, in this fraction of a second, it knows exactly where it is on the road.
It can also identify everything around it in full 360 degrees.
And then predict what those things might do next.
And it doesn't just do that for the objects you and I can see.
It can do that for things up to three football fields away.
What makes everything you can see right now possible is experience.
Waymo has already self-driven millions of miles on complicated city streets
and it's constantly learning from every single mile it drives.
With all that knowledge, it can plan a safe path ahead.
In this instance, giving that cyclist enough room to cycle past us
and also looking out for that pedestrian on the sidewalk
And when it comes to making decisions, this is a good example
of how Waymo doesn't just take into account your safety,
it also makes sure that both you, and the people around you feel secure and at ease.
So now that you know how Waymo works, it's time to take your first ride in one of our cars.
Take a look around.
You're now riding in a fully self-driving car.
Some things might immediately stand out.
The fact that there's no one in the driver's seat, no one turning the wheel.
And the screens, which show you what the car is seeing and the route it's taking.
But you might also notice that the ride feels a lot like being driven in a regular car.
And that's the way it should feel.
All this technology, which allows Waymo to see, identify, predict and plan
should make an extraordinary ride feel completely ordinary.
And create a very normal journey that simply gets you from A to B safe and sound.
And while it does all that, all you have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
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777 ★POWERFUL★ Self Confidence Affirmations - Get Success And Self Esteem Affirmation Video - Duration: 1:37:30.
I am unstoppable. I am confident when talking to others.
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I embrace failure and I am made stronger by it.
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I am a problem solver - I focus on solutions and find the best one.
I am the kind of person who confidently goes after success.
I can do anything I set my mind to do. I am confident with myself.
I ask for what I truly want and it finds me with ease.
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I am assertive. I tell others how I feel.
I can stand up to anything. I am very attractive.
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Many people look up to me and recognize my worth.
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I always find a way out of difficult situations. My fears of tomorrow are melting away.
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I act with confidence. I know that rejection is a natural part of
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am confident, composed, and determined. I love myself deeply and completely.
I remain relaxed and confident, even when facing rejection.
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I love and respect myself. Improving my self confidence is very important.
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Many people look up to me and recognize my worth.
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Gaining strength from difficulty is something I do naturally.
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I take action now. I am fortunate.
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conviction. Developing assertiveness will improve my life.
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energy. Confidence empowers me to take action, and
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to give priority to my desires. I speak my mind without fear of rejection.
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my life is abundant. I express my emotions freely.
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envision now. I am worthy of great love.
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I abandon my old habits and take up new, more positive ones.
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person. I am a powerhouse, and I am indestructible.
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think. I am liberated from my fear of failure.
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in the world. Others see me as a strong, independent individual.
I am capable of achieving my goal. I forgive those who have harmed me, and peacefully
detach from them. I can make my own choices and decisions.
My thoughts and opinions are valuable. I have the right to stand up for myself.
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I have an unbreakable confidence within me.
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I just naturally do. I express myself without guilt or hesitation.
I have the strength to make my dreams come true.
I set boundaries and tell others what I want. I can accomplish anything I set my mind to.
I bring value to the world. I just have a natural inner hardness.
Developing confidence improves my life. I like myself better each day.
I can set firm boundaries. I love challenges, they bring out the best
in me. I stand up for myself.
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I can confidently take control of any situation. My inner vision is always clear and focused.
I can do anything. I am able to easily handle any problem I face.
I am confident when talking to others. My opinions are important.
I am ready for anything. Others respect my assertiveness.
I am well liked by everyone. I am a high achiever.
Being free from the fear of what others think has made my life great.
I simply love who I am. Staying positive and learning from failure
helps me to achieve massive success. I always take action without hesitation or
fear. I achieve massive success.
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What was interesting too is that this increase in spirituality happened
because there were other changes happening at the same time. So we also
measured other basic core beliefs we have about the world that life is
meaningful that people are benevolent those are like beliefs we carry with us
on a day-to-day basis which there is at least a minimal level that we think okay
this world makes sense and people are not going to hurt me right now so we
wanted to see if those kind of basic beliefs were also changing as a
function. And are you calling that spirituality is that part of the question of how are you
defining spirituality or that more like a baseline like the world is good as a
safe place? yeah I wouldn't say that I think it's it often goes hand in hand
with spirituality but there are many people who wouldn't call themselves
spiritual who find that life is meaningful and that people are
benevolent. So I wouldn't say that those beliefs or spiritual there's like more
basic than that, but they're moving in they're changing also based on self
transcendence emotion so when you just felt all or admiration you will find
that the world is more meaningful and that people are more benevolent. This is
really important work this is really I mean whether you're a very good work
because whether you're very religious and have a community to practice in and
live with and like-minded folks or whether you consider yourself spiritual and
have your own practice or whether you just think oh okay the world is an OK and
kind place. That these self-transcendent positive emotions they
have an impact on all of those you know spaces. Did you also look at self
transcendent positive emotions with people who thought the world might not
be such a benevolent place it might be malevolent? Did it move the negative
emotions yeah more towards... We haven't because our participants were
like participants from the community with a pretty you know not a very low
level at the baseline on those beliefs so
they were starting with you know generally thinking okay life is
meaningful and people are benevolent but that might be interesting like to think
about application among clinical population. Yeah that's something I
haven't done
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MNA Advancing Métis Nation Self Government in Alberta – Jason Madden - Duration: 36:10.
These are actually quite exciting times for the Métis Nation.
And I'm going to talk about the important work that the Métis Nation of Alberta has ahead of you.
Want to start with talking about I think what Aaron spoke about earlier
Talking about this story
Because if you don't understand how we got here in what our story is as the Métis Nation
You don't understand why this next stage or period in our history is so important
And I think people need to understand the struggle and people need to understand the journey because everyone talks about throws around words like
self-government throws around words like Constitution and
You don't understand though. This is a continuation of the struggles that began in
1816 in 1869 and 70 in 1885 and continue to this day
And I we may not be picking up guns or doing armed resistance anymore in fact for the last 15 years
We've been in the courts fighting for recognition and making sure that our
Inherent right of self-government and self-determination is recognized, but what's really important
Now is the work that the Métis in Alberta need to do to kind of
bring it finally across the plate and achieve the vision that Riel and
leaders over the generations have had for the Métis.
I'm gonna break my presentation into five sections and go through it very quickly
Métis history in 200 years
you know in five minutes or less I'm gonna start with the birth of the Métis Nation and
Understanding where our right to self-government comes from I'm gonna
Talk about the era of broken promises colonialism and dispossession. I'm gonna talk about organizing and
Rebuilding to defend our rights in that era in the early 1900s and mid 1900s I'm gonna
Talk about the recognition of Métis rights and what we've dubbed our hunt for justice in the courts that was over a period
Then I want to talk about what I think is a new era at least we hope which is about
re-establishing that nation-to-nation relationship
And finally implementing that inherent right to self-government and self-determination
I'm gonna talk about the birth of the Métis nation because I think it's key to understanding where our
Rights come from as well as where our why we're moving forward in this way
And so here's just some of the things of whether it's the battles of
1860 in 1816 whether it's the laws of the hunt which I think are going to be talked about more this afternoon
Whether it's the provisional council that's established in 1869 and 70 in the Red River
And I think what's really key to all of this though is the Métis Nation which is born in Western
Canada has all of the indicia that are needed to be a people at
international law and an indigenous people
And I think that's what makes us very very different than other groups that may claim to be Métis or other
Or other
organizations. We have this
Constitutional base this people-hood that brings our communities whether they're in northwestern, Ontario
to southern Alberta together in a common narrative
And I think that that story or that people-hood is what grounds why
we have fought for
generations to say we're not just the adjunct relatives of First Nations and that we have based upon that
people-hood we have a right to self-government and self-determination
And so why are we a people we have a shared history a distinct culture and way of life,
customary laws in governance, a language
Territory and most importantly, and it's not you know is is a constant
permit permutation of
identification of a people standing up and fighting and pushing back when
colonization rolls westward pushing back when our
lands are taken from us. Pushing back in the courts when we know
there's been constitutional promises made to us that have been broken and I think that is that is what distinguishes the Métis
from other
groups, is that that constant collective assertion of a consciousness
political action and also recognition by others as a people, and I think that we're
underlying that is
why we say we have the inherent right of self-government and self-determination
And I've put up here the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people which reaffirms that an international law
But it's what Riel and leaders over the generations have constantly struggled with. Canada lives in a in a denial
Canada to a large extent is based upon a fiction. The story
I was told when I was in grade school
And I don't think it's changed that much in the curriculum is largely based upon lies
It's it's from a perspective of well, this is how Canada was created and built and it's very often the indigenous
Perspective is not in that story. Now we're slowly rewriting it and for the youth in here
I kind of see colonization as kind of a a virus
In that that gets into a program, and it rewrites the code right it's kind of no
No, no, no, this is a lake that we've always called X. But then after
Colonization gets in there and it recode x' it's like it's named after this white guy's wife because she's been here for 20 minutes
But it's erased
all of the history in the code that lies underneath which is our stories and our connection to the land
And I think that what we what we're doing in this process of reconciliation is rewriting that code
We're trying to tell truths about what this country is built upon and we're also trying to finally
negotiate a right relate the correct relationship or the relationship that Riel envisioned with the with Canada and
It's hard work, and it's been a long slog
But I think that when we talk about why are we developing a constitution, and why are we doing this work?
That's the only way that we're going to rewrite that code
So it has some truth within it and also to a certain extent, and I'll show this later put us back on the map
Because often those boundaries have divided our nationhood
They've erased our places and they've relate they've erased our homeland
After that birth of the Métis Nation as a people in 1860
1816 and continued in the continuation and the the events in in Red River in 1869 and 70
what you have is a history of broken promises dispossession and
Colonization and I think that this is and I just want to show some of these this deeply embedded
biases that lie within our country, so this is a map and I took this map from a
grade 8
history studies book,
that is still in circulation
And I think it's kind of interesting and and when you kind of see this of like oh well here's Canada in
1867 and here's Rupert's land in the Northwest Territories
But what we don't recognize is the bias that's built into this map right the grayed out
Canada is where all the action is over here about what they've created in the east, but they kind of go
Oh, and here's the Northwest your Rupert's land
And what's often missing from here is the perspective of the people that are actually on the land, so I love this quote from
Riel and he says when the Government of Canada
Presented itself at the doors it found us at peace it found the Métis people of the Northwest
Could only could not only live well without it, but that it had a government of its own free peaceful well-functioning
Contributing to the work of civilization in a way the company in England could never have done with a thousand soldiers
It was a government with an organized Constitution and let's emphasize that an organized
Constitution whose junction was more legitimate and worthy of respect because it was exercised over a country that belonged to it and
I think that that that that's really important because that's left off the map right. Oh, it's this grayed out area
There's nothing there in fact. There's deep laws, tradition,
history there
And it's often ignored in it or it's seen as lesser than or inferior to what's coming westward
But what's coming from the east and we simply know that's not the truth
So this is Riel's vision of what he thinks happening and this is Sir John A's vision
Of what he's writing to one of his drinking buddies in one of his journals
And it this comes from the Manitoba Métis Federation case and he says it will require considerable
Management to keep those wild people down. That's you everyone in this room. That's you you you're those wild people because
Because it it stops that that virus that is
Colonisation, it's we're pushing back against it
I think that that that sort of but that's the starting point and
At the beginning part of the relationship in 1869 and 70 Canada needed us there was no way through there was no way to
Sir John A's vision of building a railway it was never going to be achieved without
Métis consent, Métis becoming a part of this country and
that and that deal which is often referred to as a treaty or and Riel refers to it as two societies
One great, but having no greater rights than the other
Coming together and forging a partnership. That was supposed to be a partnership and a partnership isn't kind of okay well
What's the promise I need to do to get me through the day?
and then I'll breach it as soon as it's as soon as is over and
Whether it was that deliberate or not it was pretty clear though. There was never an intention to keep that
Partnership, and we've been digging ourselves out from those breaches over the last hundred and fifty years
So here's the original promise of the section 31 1.4 million acres of land
promised to the Métis in the Red River settlement and
In what was the old postage stamp province of Manitoba and of course as soon as they get their promise,
that deal is delayed
Not fulfilled and the children or the idea of creating a homeland, which it would represent almost
fourteen percent of the landmass
Within that postage stamp never comes to be and of course we have the Battle of Batoche are they in
1885 of another Métis resistance of pushing back and what comes out of that?
Which is part of the story within alberta is the implementation of the script system, but it's once again that
Coding that virus of all the script system is about is about land dispossession
it's not about the promise that's embedded with the
1870 order about the transfer of Rupert's land is about
Equitable principles of just settlement and dealing with the Indigenous peoples, but what's actually created is a system
that's all about dispossession and
getting people off the land Indigenous people off the land and getting it into the hands of non-Indigenous people
It's like a giant land laundering scheme. That is so rife with fraud and
speculation and
Injustice that the court the Supreme Court candidate has already called it a story chapter in our nation's history and of course here
Which many of us have within our families is a script coupon which is part of that paper process of
dispossessing our people from the land
but let's not forget that that is the root cause of why that relationship goes so awry and
We can never forget that script there will be no reconciliation with the Métis nation in Western, Canada
without resolution on the script issue
For the Manitoba Métis, it was about
Clearly section 31 needs to be dealt with and recognized there will never be justice
or reconciliation with the Métis within Alberta without finding resolution on the script issue and
it goes part and parcel to
self-government and a modern-day land claim or treaty with the Métis
Because we'll never forget and it is what created that power imbalance and large
dispossession of our people from the lands
This is a quote from the Royal Commission report in its it's from the people that own
themselves to being the road allowance people and it's all about that
code, that that virus that infects the lands which is
Colonisation and that this is from the cab while
They were never well-off Indian people at least had their reserves and benefited from various social services provided by the Government of Canada
Not so the Métis in the earliest 20th century the circumstances of a burden Métis
Were especially grim in central and northern regions game was scarce
prohibitive expensive fishing licenses were required the whites and white settlement was spreading remorsefully. The majority of the Métis were reduced to
squatting on the fringes of Indian reserves in white settlements and on road allowances. The
Independent ones who had been the diplomats and brokers of the Northwest were now referred to as the road allowance
People and that is the result of those broken promises
colonization and dispossession and that is what we have been digging ourselves out from and that is the
Resurgence that you see within Alberta in the early 1900s of Métis coming together to organize
again
Because this wasn't unlike the deal negotiated in 1869 and 70. No one negotiated script.
this was unilaterally imposed by the federal government as a means to achieve their goals. Never from a
consent perspective of the Métis actually saying how what is the intention of what of the promise. I
think that the the next era that you see the Métis Nation
go through is this organization and rebuilding and you have a proud history here in Métis in Alberta
you have the settlements of the
organization of coming together to secure a land base for Métis and
You also have the creation of the Métis Nation of Alberta, the Métis
Association of Alberta, one of the oldest of the Métis National councils governing members and
You organize and rebuild and you still with not a recognition from
Governments that you have the inherent right to self-government that that respect is not there
it's a we know we have it and we'll always have it as a people, but it's always been about
create finally getting to a nation to nation, government to government relationship with Canada to ensure and to protect
Métis rights and mate the Métis nation for generations to come and this
Rebuilding period is is what has contributed to as I said the creation of the settlements to all of the
Institutions and good programs and services that the Métis Nation of Alberta has has been able to deliver over the years
But it's not enough. You have huge gaps you have areas where you need to do more work
And it also has never been on a nation to nation government to government relationship. It's been based upon well
Here's the federal government's programs
and maybe we'll let you deliver them. The next phase that we have is the recognition of Métis rights as a
Collective the Métis nation as a people within section 35 and also what we thought
with and here's a photo of harry daniels who one of the
former board member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and also one of the key leaders who were
able to secure this second recognition of the Métis within Canada's Constitution
But we thought that section 35 was supposed to change everything. There were constitutional
Conferences after in the late 80s and there was the Métis Nation Accord in the early 1990s and when those failed
to get results what essentially we saw governments do is they walked away.
They walked away from the table. They kind of said oh well section 35 is a me fool
You promised it got us through the day in 1982 we put you in there to appease you,
but it's an empty box.
It's an empty box
and I think what the in Métis not because we wanted to or because we
Because we actually go and seek answers to these questions from the courts
It's just as opposed to picking up arms in the modern day
We've been returned to the courts in what we called our hunt for justice to say no section 35 has meaning
things were supposed to change, you were supposed to you recognized us as a
Distinct indigenous people, and it's not an empty box.
You have to sit down and negotiate. And I think through a series of cases from Powley in
2003 to Manitoba matey Federation in 2013 to Daniel's in 2016
We've been using the courts to nudge
cajole kick
Governments to finally say you need to come through here
And I just want to say we've never turned to the answers for courts. The courts will never define who we are.
Lawyers will never define who we are. Academics will never define who we are. The people will define who we are and
that is and the we have been using the courts as a tool to get to the table
Where it's handed back to the Métis to get to that negotiation
And I think that it's really important to always remember that that the courts are
Should be irrelevant
to us in our negotiations
because it was a means to an end it shouldn't provide the parameters or the square boxes that we should be thinking within and
As one of the lawyers who's been up in the courts arguing that, courts are ill-equipped, they cannot deal with these issues
They the the Royal Commission on Aboriginal people is always very clear that courts are
actually, you know should not be the places that these that these issues should be resolved
It should be resolved between Indigenous peoples and governments through good faith negotiations now
we hope that that table has now been set, but as I said, we've been taking these cases to get to a place where
we finally have a negotiation process between the Métis Nation and in
Canada and of course with the with the most recent case the Daniels case along with
recent reports from ministerial representative
appointed by Canada on Métis Rights, Tom Isaac and a confluence of events of also political
Events such as the election of Justin Trudeau times have changed on these things.
So where this really gets to though is a renewed relationship starting in
2015 or at least the beginnings of it and where were we're getting to today, so
Prime Minister sends a letter to Minister Bennett to saying
One of her mandates are to work on a nation-to-nation basis with the Métis Nation. I think that's really important, you know
we've always seen this you know with the Métis or with the Métis people this
Government is committed to working with the Métis Nation as opposed to just other groups or organizations
Out there that may claim to be
Quote-on-quote Métis and to renew the relationship based on cooperation
Respect for rights and our international obligations and a commitment to ending the status quo. Now
Those are big fluffy words and governments are very good at doing that especially this government
And but we hold out hope that
when the rubber hits the road
We actually can change the status quo so in in the Métis Nation of Alberta like always has been a leader in
driving and making use of these opportunities so in January 2016
signing a
MoU to engage in exploratory discussions around how do we move forward on Métis rights, Métis
self-government and all of the issues that you've been
asking for to move forward on in generations and
In November of 2017 signing a framework agreement, which really sets out a formal negotiations process to deal with these issues.
It's important, and I just want to highlight some of the pieces from the framework agreement
It says one of the goals of a formal negotiations process so one of the things I just want to say is I've had
Tripartite processes, and they've always been these you know
truncated somewhat teeth 'less processes
They haven't been formal negotiations First Nations in any way have been engaged in formal negotiation processes
We've been kind of in this you know kitty
Sandbox of just you know can we talk about programs and services can we talk about devolution can we talk about public government. Not
necessarily talking about real self-government
And I think that that's what's changed with this that there's a formal
negotiation process in the commitments made within the framework agreement around this so one of key of it is to
Renew the nation nation relationship between the crown and the Métis nation within Alberta by jointly developing a government-to-government
Relationship, and you guys know that we get slagged on this all the time
You know I represent the Manitoba Métis Federation they you know governments or industry will say oh
You're just an ink you're just a corporation and in Alberta it's "Oh, you're just an association" and
What this process is about is that
metamorphosis of converting from an
Association now we always believe that we have the inherent right of self-government
we are a government do we you're just at presently using a
corporate vehicle or an association vehicle to advance our interests, but
We always know that we're it's not about someone giving us self-government or recognizing our self-government
It's actually about finally getting to a place where we've we've established that nation-to-nation relationship
Where we're not struggling for recognition anymore and in addition, there's three components to the framework agreement
Giving expression to the inherent right of the Métis Nation with an Alberta to self-government and self-determination
recognizing section 35 Métis rights and also exploring with a view of settling outstanding claims
including those flowing from the Dominion Lands Act which are Métis script and
Importantly, I think that there's some substantive commitments and timely commitments here the parties agree that
Within the first year of the agreement so the clock is ticking since November
That they will attempt to reach an agreement in principle in
recognizing self-government for the Métis Nation within Alberta that will address amongst other things the role functions in jurisdiction of the MNA
Including its relationships with other governments. And so this is a substantive commitment of actually moving from that previous
patronizing you know oh, you're nothing more than an association relationship to a government-to-government
relationship, and I think that that that is what is so significant about the recent agreements and the change that
you're seeing
flowing from Daniels and and also the court cases
What is self-government and I do I do just want to talk about this people throw this term around
And it's it's kind of one of those consultants speak words sometimes
I think and I just want to break it down of what it actually means for the Métis themselves visa vie self-government Métis nations
right to self-government in here's within us as a people and
The right is held by all peoples and international law around the world including
Indigenous peoples and the right rests with the people as a collective not within
Individuals not within sight specific locations it represents it rests within the Métis Nation
And that's why it's called our inherent right. It's if you're a people you got it, and you never give it up
Never goes away. It's deep it adheres within you
Understandings our self-government is not about getting others is not dependent on
Others giving it to us or recognizing it the legitimacy of our self-government comes from our people believing in
Supporting it and relying on it and participating it. It's it's the people in this room that make Métis self government real
It's not because Ottawa says it exists
it's because the Métis people believe in the Métis Nation of Alberta whether it's
Participating in locals whether it's participating within the regions whether it's coming together through annual General Assemblies, whether it's coming out in elections
That's what makes our self-government real. It's the people it's not the
institutions or
structures it's the people who drive it and who are the engine for our self-government and
This is what has sustained us in the face of colonialism,
disrespect, and internal divisions and
Self-government is really about how an Indigenous nation chooses to govern itself. How it makes decisions
How it chooses leaders, how it relates to other governments, and more importantly
It's about the relationship that the nation has to its individual citizens
What are the inherent rights and freedoms you have as a citizen the Métis Nation how
the limitations imposed on the nations governments the
Who are the citizens of the Métis nation?
Those are the key
Questions that you need to answer now over the years the Métis Nation has answered many of those questions
And they lie within your current bylaws or they lie within the conventions or your histories
But now is the moment in time where
in for most nations
or people's where this is embedded is in a constitution and
Right now the Métis Nation of Alberta doesn't have one you have bylaws which sets out some of these structures, but it's still
underneath the Alberta society's act not
recognized
and ratified by the people themselves and I think this next stage in your history is about finally getting to that
Constitution because
Constitutions are considered a reflection of the people's or a nation's soul and it has to be driven from the people themselves
And I think that the MNA is about to embark on these consultations to really have the discussion about saying you know look at Riel
had to back in 1869 he had to go to
Three
ongoing meetings to finally get a mandate to
establish a provisional government
It was he had to go to the people to do it and this process you're about to engage in
you have to go to the people and
ultimately it will be the citizens of the Métis Nation of Alberta who will decide whether they will ratify a
constitution and move from the shackles of an association to
One Métis Nation government, and I think that that's quite
An exciting time in our history, we've never had that opportunity before a Métis Nation of Alberta Constitution
Well, what do constitutions do not going to get too much into this,
but they legitimize political authority they protect individual rights and freedoms by limiting the power of the government they
identify with the powers different political actors the executive the legislature the
Judiciary they express basic beliefs in symbolism they provide political stability, so you're not fighting about bylaws
Which you like to do. I just like to know and
and they also set out a process for making major changes and
establishing mechanisms for dispute resolution
And these are just some of the things that need to lead to be found within a constitution
And I think you already have various components that would go within your constitution
These are pieces of your self government right now
But what you really need to decide is not from a bylaw perspective, but from a constitution perspective
How are you going to govern tomorrow and for generations to come so now you have local
citizenship
Lawmaking authority relationships with other governments rights of citizens regional councils provincial council and it's really about creating
a modern-day Métis government
And I think that we have to have some serious discussions about what that looks like
What how how do we engage young people in our government today?
Who live on their iPhones as opposed to wanting to come out to community meetings.
And I think that in order to become a real government you have to find a way
to make it real and to make
People want to participate within it and some of the old ways of the past are great
But some of the it's but we also have to recognize that we're building a government for the future and we have to recognize
About what what our lives are today, and how the matey nation will advance
for generations to come
in in developing a constitution you have to look at principles about where the constitution of what what our key principles whether it's
democratic governance structures
This is you know one of the tried-and-true things that you always see throughout the Métis Nation we believe in democracy we also believe
People have a right to be heard even if we don't agree with their opinions Riel had to go for three solid days
and the English half-breeds in the in the settlement didn't want to establish a
provisional government
They were concerned about it and through persuasiveness and through debate and through talking they
Brought people along to say no we will finally establish a provisional government
And that's the important point of that the people have to want it if the people don't want it
You're not going to be able to create it
That it's rooted in our customs and traditions not some third party being
Imposed on us. It's grounded in our nationhood our rights and our homeland
And it's about the locals regions and provincial bodies working together
And what that mix looks like going into the future no one's sure
But this is the process to begin that discussion
And so I think that I just want to say what how it's different of right now you have MNA members you have bylaws
You have MNA governance and structures and institutions set out in those, bylaws
and where you want to move towards are Métis Nation citizens a
Constitution ratified by those citizens and a third order of Métis government recognized within this country
Where are we we're in the process of one MNA has to do its homework of getting to that?
Constitution in addition we're engaging in discussions with the federal government on how you negotiate
Self-government, and I kind of think of it as this like you have three concentric circles you have what is the Métis Nations jurisdiction?
What is the Manitoba sorry not the wrong one in here? What's the Alberta government?
Jurisdiction and what the what's the federal government's jurisdiction and what your negotiating is between how those
jurisdictions will work together
And I always I like this visual of a tree of what we're actually building
So if you think about it the roots of the tree are our history and our inherent right to self-government
So whether it's the laws of the hunt whether it's are
These two provisional government's established
That's what anchors us
because my as
That saying you you need to know where you come from in order to know where you're going and we can never forget what
anchors us and grounds us as the Métis nation and what we're really now starting to build though is that trunk of the tree?
Which is our
Constitution and which is our the recognized of our self-government
Which is anchored on that history those customs those traditions
And and we want a strong trunk of the tree because that's what's going to
Hold us up for generations to come and all of those branches
And you already have some of those branches of the tree already and some of the programs and services that are delivered
But instead of programs and services, we really wanted to start talking about jurisdiction
This isn't just you know us delivering a program for others. This is about how do we design something that works for our own people?
Based upon Métis jurisdiction not some delegated or subordinate
Authorization from another level of government, and I think these are the fundamental pieces that that we're building
So what happens next well, I think this is the starting point you signed in November 2017 of
extensive province-wide
consultations the
development of a constitution
And I and I also just want to say this everyone always gets nervous all you know we haven't heard about this at the end
of the day
You're going to have to ratify it. It's not gonna
Just be at an annual General Assembly about who's the loudest at a microphone. It's going to be
rank-and-file citizens
35,000 plus of you who are gonna have to go out and vote and it's the same way as as I
told you that story about how Riel had to go to three debates to finally get the mandate to establish a provisional government if
the people don't want it if you're not ready to move from an
association to a government or
It's still not in our heart and soul that we want to finally achieve that
Vision that that our ancestors had then we won't ratify it
But I can tell you that at the end of the day
this is going to be a key piece in the Métis Nation's history about whether you move from an
Association to a government, and I think it's an exciting time also you're going to have to deal with the ratification of an MA
Canada self-government agreement, but part and parcel of getting to that self-government agreement is getting to a constitution and
finally recognition of Métis Nation of Alberta government and I
Very much look forward to that day, so I'm never in courts again fighting about by laws
I think the time is right
And I think that our nation's ready to finally renew that relationship in half and finally put in place a government-to-government
relationship with other governments
Like our ancestors envisioned. Thanks very much and look forward to the next part of the workshop. Thank
You
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Being Greater than Self, with Dr. Patty Van Cappellen - Duration: 3:27.
So Patty, let's begin at the beginning which is defining this thing called self
transcendent positive emotions. Yeah it's a mouthful. So I was interested in those
emotions because as you mentioned my work is revolving around religion and
spirituality and so I started being interested in what I broadly call self
transcendence and the search that people have to kind of be connected to
something bigger than themselves. And self transcendence is this you know
reduce self awareness and sense of connectedness with people around us and
with the world in general. And it seems that some positive emotion, some
uplifting emotions are able to make this self transcendence experience emerge and
that's why they're called self transcendence emotions. So before I go
into the definition let's think about a couple of examples. For example awe is a
self transcendent emotion. You know, when you're watching a beautiful sunset or a
beautiful work of art another emotion, self transcendence emotion is admiration
so when you're seeing someone with great skills or talent or great moral values
that you're admiring and finally another example is the emotion that we
psychologists call elevation. And elevation is felt when you are seeing
someone doing a great moral action. Like imagine an old lady having a hard time
carrying her bags and you see a perfect stranger coming and helping this person
carrying the bag through her house and you were just watching that but it makes
you feel good inside and makes you feel like oh life is beautiful actually. So
these are examples of self transcendence emotions, they are about seeing something
or someone being greater than the self, something
beautiful around you. And there are categorized by two things. First of all
these emotions are not really about yourself, it's not you achieving
something or succeeding in something. When you're seeing this person helping
the old lady you know it doesn't really do anything to your goals or to your own
life it's just something beautiful happening outside. And so they're what is
called "other focus" like your focus in that moment is not really on yourself
your day-to-day concerns. It's about what's outside and what's happening
around you and because of this other focus comes the second characteristic of
those emotions and that's how they make you want to become a better person. So
they will activate this care for others and social tendencies you want to help
others. So those are the characteristics of self transcendent emotions that I have
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Episode 25 - Examples of Self Advocacy | PACERTalks About Bullying - Duration: 7:29.
>> Hey there.
Welcome back to PACERTalks About Bullying.
I'm Bailey.
We're glad you're here.
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So this month we're talking all about advocacy and self-advocacy.
And we hear from a lot of parents that it can be this tricky concept to figure
out what self-advocacy looks like and what are the different benefits from it.
So today we have Jody Manning with us, who is an amazing parent advocate and she is going
to share a really powerful example that I think helps illustrate what self-advocacy is.
So thanks for being here and we're really excited
to share this awesome example with people.
>> It's my pleasure, Bailey.
As you know, the National Bullying Prevention Center developed a fabulous tool for parents.
It's called the Student Action Plan.
And it's intended to help deal with bullying situations.
And I was working with a mother who had a young son.
For the sake of the story, I'll call him Johnny.
And Johnny, at the time, was a first grade student and he had an IEP --
an individualized education plan -- through the category of ASD -- Autism Spectrum Disorders.
And he was diagnosed with high functioning autism at the time.
And he was dealing with bullying and we had an IEP meeting set up with the school.
So before the IEP meeting, I emailed the parent the Student Action Plan that your team developed
and explained how to use that tool.
And I fully expected that she would share the information with her son,
but I really didn't know what I was in for.
When I showed up at the IEP meeting, along with the school staff and the parent,
her son Johnny was at the meeting as well, which was really exciting and great because usually
when they're that young they don't come to IEP meetings.
And when we started talking about the tool -- the Student Action Plan --
with the school staff, it became very clear to all of us
that Johnny was well-versed in this tool and how it worked.
So the Student Action Plan works in a way that it's a three step process.
The first step is the student identifies the situation that is troublesome to them.
The second part of it is they identify what they would like the situation to look
like instead of what it currently looks like.
And the third step is they identify steps
that they think would be necessary to change the situation.
So when we arrived at that meeting, Johnny was well prepared with what he wanted
to say about the three step process.
And Johnny started the conversation by explaining the situation he was dealing with.
And he described a lunch room situation
where he was clearly being socially and emotionally isolated.
That was the bullying situation that he was dealing with.
And Johnny explained that he would go through the lunch line
and he would have his little tray -- I'm sure you can picture it --
and he would go to the lunch table.
And if the lunch table was full and he would start to sit down,
the other students would make a grand exodus and leave him at the table by himself.
If instead the table was empty and he would sit down and anticipate that some of his classmates
or peers would join him at the table, that wouldn't happen.
He would be left at the table all by himself.
So, as you can imagine, his step two of the Student Action Plan was simply that he would
like to have lunch with other students.
>> Right.
>> So when it came time to discuss step three of the Student Action Plan,
where we would discuss steps that it would take to get the situation to look
like step two instead of step one, I anticipated that the professionals and the parent
and I would be having a discussion.
Instead, Johnny -- right away -- said, "I have some ideas
that I'd like to share with all of you."
Which was really exciting because Johnny was self-advocating for himself.
And he was really prepared to do this.
So Johnny said, "My plan is that for a period of two weeks,
I would like to have a VIP table in the lunch room."
Which was really exciting to me because he was first grade and he understood what VIP meant.
>> Right.
>> So Johnny wanted a VIP table in the lunch room and he wanted to invite four
of his classmates or peers to join him at the table and he wanted each of his friends
to be able to get two desserts each day to join him at the table.
And so the school staff agreed that they could give up an extra five desserts a day,
which was really thoughtful and generous of them.
We were grateful that they were willing to do that.
So we agreed that we would go with that plan for two weeks.
After two weeks, the IEP team met again and Johnny shared with us that he had some success,
but he didn't have the opportunity to invite everyone to his VIP table
and he had really hoped to do that to make connections with all of the students.
Ironically, Johnny knew what it felt like to be left out and he didn't want to leave anyone out.
So he wanted a little bit more time.
And so the team decided he would get two weeks more time.
We anticipated we would continue the same process
and Johnny said, "No, I have a different plan."
He wanted to bump it up a little bit.
And he proceeded to tell the team that he wanted his mom to come to school every day.
She was awestruck with excitement and Johnny right away said, "No-no-no-no, Mom.
You're not going to have lunch with us.
In fact, I don't really want you to come in fully into the school.
I just want you to drive through McDonalds drive-thru.
Pick up five Happy Meals and drop them off at the office."
So those of you who are watching, if you're a parent and you've had a child
who has been bullied, you probably understand that you would do just about anything
to make sure that you could try to help stop that process.
And she agreed to bring Happy Meals every day for 10 days -- two week period.
>> Amazing.
>> Yeah.
And she did.
She brought Happy Meals and the students were sitting at the VIP table.
Who wouldn't want to sit at the VIP table to get a Happy Meal?
They did that again for a two week period.
We met yet again.
And, ironically, when it came time to share about the situation --
to no one's surprise, I should say -- Johnny shared that everything was great.
He was happy.
More engaged with the students.
The school staff then shared with us that when previously they had shared
that Johnny might have been bossy or talked
with his mouth full were the reasons why they said they didn't want to sit with him.
Now they realize that he knew more jokes and riddles than anyone.
He had a great sense of humor.
He knew more about rockets than anyone.
And he had a great belly laugh and he was just fun to be with.
So that situation was completely turned around by some really great suggestions
and ingenious ideas by a little first grader who was self-advocating for --
on behalf of himself, and the collaboration with school staff.
And it was a great example of the student action plan at work.
>> Right.
And what I really love about that example is it kind of encompasses self-advocacy by showing
that it empowers the students and it really plays to their strengths and their abilities,
and it can be this customizable plan to really ask for what we need.
>> Yes, exactly.
It's a really great tool.
I hope more people use it.
>> Absolutely.
And thanks again for Jody for being here today and sharing this awesome story.
And remember, together, we can all help create a world without bullying.
See ya!
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Self Transcedent Positive Emotions, with Dr. Patty Van Cappellen - Duration: 1:16.
These emotions are everywhere and they are not restricted to religious or
so-called spiritual people or to those contexts. For me that's really important
I think for many people looking at a beautiful sunset is a religious
experience but for others for those of you know of us who are not religious or
maybe atheist I mean those emotions can be felt by them and they provide meaning
and connectedness just in the same way and I think that's very important that
they don't feel left behind because they don't have these rituals that yes
are very good at eliciting these you know powerful emotions but are not the only
ones or not the only situations in which that can happen. That for me is
very important. It is equal-opportunity for self transcendence positive
emotions no matter where you are. Yeah yeah. Thank you Patty thank you.
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Increasing Self Transcendence, with Dr. Patty Van Cappellen - Duration: 2:38.
I was thinking when I was hearing you talk about these self-transcendent
emotions being bigger than who we see ourselves to be does it have any
relationship with flow because a lot of times when I talk about being in flow
that there is this quality of being outside of yourself or that you even
lose a sense of self? Yeah yeah I think yeah there's definitely a
relation for example the emotion of awe when you're in awe you kind of lose
sense of time so your time expands just like when you're in flow when time
doesn't matter anymore. So they share common you know features or
phenomenological experiences just like some would say in mystical experiences
or spiritual experiences. I think all of these experiences share something in
common which is to bring us outside of our self or like self chatter and our
concerns and so forth and to kind of make us see the bigger picture around us
which motivates us to become these you know better people. So we want more of
that. Yeah for sure. So does that like getting outside of ourselves, so are there concrete
things that you recommend that we think about when we look at self
transcendent positive emotions, how do we cultivate them is there a
cultivation to it? Well I think yeah you can actually even
the experience of awe is much more frequent that one may assume you know
you can just walk outside today's a beautiful day just look at how the
lights plays in the trees and so I mean it depends what speaks to you but I
think we all have you know these moments or experiences that will trigger awe or
admiration or gratitude or compassion and so I think just cultivating those
moments you know not trying to force them but just notice what's happening
around us because the key with self transcendence emotion is that there are
other focus so you can't really say them if you're just looking at yourself
and not really at what's happening around you. So I think one one key one
key thing to do if you want to you know increase your dose of self-transcendence
emotion is just to look around you
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